Skip to main content

Power BI

Needs Votes

Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

Vote (310) Share
David's profile image

David on 13 Jul 2016 06:02:56

When adding a text box to a report, spellcheck automatically analyzes the contents and highlights words not in it's dictionary with the familiar red squiggle. There is no way to dismiss this squiggle, meaning that the highlighting is always present. There is no way to disable spellcheck via options either.

Comments (31)
David's profile image Profile Picture

Martin Jacobsen on 23 Dec 2024 08:40:11

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

Believe it or not, but some PBI users are actually not US citizens, and need to write text boxes in other languages than english! (thus making the spellchecker going berserk) Can we get a fix here please!

David's profile image Profile Picture

Stuart Waller on 27 Nov 2024 10:26:43

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

I fail to understand how a relatively modern application is missing so many basic features, or insists on doing some ridiculous workaround.No ability to turn off spell-check, but also no way to add "custom" words to the dictionary to prevent them being detected as incorrect. As others have mentioned, a lot of my text includes acronyms, names of servers, DBs, and tables, all of which are not in the dictionary, so my text boxes soon become filled with very, VERY distracting red lines.

David's profile image Profile Picture

Josh Hall on 24 Oct 2024 11:44:46

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

We really need to be able to ignore or disable this ASAP please. I have a project name that is an acronym and so it's constantly got the red squiggle underneath. It's so annoying

David's profile image Profile Picture

Bénédicte JARDIN on 24 Jul 2024 19:07:36

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

We urgently need the ability to disable the spell check in box and forms please!

David's profile image Profile Picture

AUTOMATION Administration on 07 Jun 2024 14:20:10

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

please do something Microsoft!! I just can't use it. yuk

David's profile image Profile Picture

James Purcell on 16 Apr 2024 10:13:12

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

LOL almost 8 years and counting. Doesn't have AI in the title so doesn't get resources.

David's profile image Profile Picture

Bart Titulaer on 04 Jan 2024 14:58:04

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

Please People in Redmond, do not think that all language is in ENG. Comments are very useful, please remove the red lines if it is not in ENG.....

David's profile image Profile Picture

Michael Wedekindt on 22 Nov 2023 09:42:36

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

OMG please change this immediately, this was raised 2016 and its still there.

David's profile image Profile Picture

Pepijn Vries, de on 31 Jul 2023 13:12:22

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

Turn spellcheck off in powerbiIf you searched this phrase and ended up here... No, it's not possible, please vote on this issue.

David's profile image Profile Picture

Jelga Biesheuvel on 10 Jul 2023 13:33:54

RE: Spellcheck is automatically turned on for text boxes, but can't be dismissed

Is there seriously no way to turn this off? It is of no help, I don't even understand why some words have a line under it, as they are perfectly common words.